Among the people living in this world, few know about Heaven. Of course they will know the noun, but not many are those who know about its content. Furthermore, when we say “reality,” because we are living in the midst of it, we have become selves who cannot escape all the bonds and environment we run up against here.
That is why anyone at all feels the stimulus of reality. If one were to have God’s Will or what human beings plan be achieved, what must be given weight is reality. The settling of victory and defeat too comes about in reality, and new resolve or hope too is achieved in reality. No Will whatever can set out while disregarding reality.
The Will and Reality
If God’s Will were necessary only for God Himself, that Will could hold no relationship with us human beings today. But because that Will is a Will that must be achieved by forming a relationship with human beings of reality, it means God cannot but come forth, forming a relationship with human beings living on the stage of reality. As reality is connected and time passes, it becomes a day, and as days pass, it becomes a month, and as months pass, it becomes a year, and as years pass, history is formed.
Even looking at the past, that past is undoubtedly the reality of some one time.
Therefore, seen upon a single straight line, the future too is undoubtedly a reality that can come hereafter. In the past or the present, and in the future as well, it means that only when one connects to a standard of reality are all bonds and relationships settled and unfolded.
It is the same with God as well. However absolute a One He be and however much authority He holds, it means He has a relationship with this earth and is bound to it. Also, that bond is not achieved unless it, without fail, forms a relationship with the actual process of time.
When we think of such things, no one can but acknowledge that our reality of living day by day and God’s Will, the world situation that must be gathered, the policy the Republic of Korea desires, or the worldwide policies that the statesmen of countless nations must carry out—all of these cannot bring about anything new without being settled centering on a process of reality.
Even though in the historical process until now there were great men who received the admiration of countless people, or religious leaders, or ideological leaders, they too could not bring to accomplishment the purpose they hoped for or pursued without forming a relationship with a process of reality centering on the hope of some time.
And however great a worldwide leader there may be, whether that person becomes a historic figure or not is decided according to how well he forms content by which he can be equipped with a bond together with reality.
Seen from this point, we can know that God’s providence is not achieved through a chance process. We can know that its content is settled and its relationship and bond are formed through all the processes of past and present and future.
The Magnitude of Responsibility and Conditions of Indemnity
Then who is the subject being who can settle this?
It is the human being living in reality. When we look at centering on oneself, however ill-favored and insufficient one may be, oneself is the actual starting point the Father desires. When we consider that oneself becomes one starting point so that history is connected and the providence is achieved, this cannot but be an enormous matter.
We can know that the Will of providence without fail forms a relationship on the stage of reality centering on some focal point. Then through what process does the stage of reality gradually develop?
If one were to develop, countless conditions of reality must unfold. This becomes one person, and this one person becomes the focal point so that countless people form relationships with him, and all who have formed those relationships come to form relationships in reality, and history develops.
When we look at such a fact, you who stand in such a position must, as one actual being, form a relationship together with the Will, and the more the days pass, the more that relationship must become higher and broader and deeper.
Seen in terms of the Principle, this speaks of the tremendous content of individual restoration, family restoration, clan restoration, people restoration, national restoration, and world restoration. This restoration is not achieved without forming a relationship on one’s own stage of living centering on oneself.
For us to form a relationship, we must carry out Restoration through Indemnity. To put it another way, one must without fail pay a price. It will not do just as it is.
According to how great or small the weight of that price is, the question of how greatly or how little the weight of the Will is bound in a relationship centering on oneself in reality is determined.
Looking at any individual living upon this earth, where is there a person who does not wish to become important himself?
To become a great and large person and become a great person, how much content one connects in such a process becomes an important question. Here, the question of how great a historic figure that person becomes and how necessary a person he becomes on the course of providence is settled. When we look at an individual who thus forms a relationship with reality, you must know that the existence value of that individual is determined according to the difference of whether that individual forms a relationship with the nation or forms a relationship with the world, centering on God’s Will.
Seen thus, the broader that relationship, the more one must present a condition of indemnity proportionate to it. It means such a person cannot but step forth bearing a condition of indemnity in place of that nation before the nation presents a condition of indemnity. Or it means that if it be a family, unless one presents a condition of indemnity representing that family before the whole family presents a condition of indemnity, one cannot save that family. Furthermore, if there be a person who can save one world, it means that unless one person who can represent the world makes the resolve to present a condition of indemnity before the world itself presents a condition of indemnity, the world cannot be restored through indemnity.
Then what must the Lord who comes to this earth do first?
To put it another way, what is it he must do before saving the world on the stage of reality centering on Heaven’s Will? He must form a bond with this world of reality holding content that can represent the world ideal in the process of reality. Without that, however great a worldwide context he holds and however much he has come with a mission to carry out responsibility, one cannot see the departure of that mission.
That is why, for that One who comes to indemnify the world, before indemnifying the world itself, how he expands the subjecthood by which he can bear alone the content of worldwide indemnity and indemnify becomes a still greater question. You must know this.
What Must Be Done First to Achieve the Will
When we look at the Unification Church today, what is it the Unification Church must do before crying out for the liberation of these people and crying out for the liberation of the world?
It is whether the Unification Church itself can bear the content of indemnity for these people themselves.
Furthermore, if there be a person who, as one member of the Unification Church, leads the Unification Church and works for the development of the Unification Church, the question is whether he can present that condition of indemnity himself before the nation if a nation presents a condition of indemnity and before the church if a church presents a condition of indemnity. We must know this.
We can, by becoming one together with the Will, save the world hereafter. The position of seeking to save the world, seen by a worldly standard, is not normal. So to be equipped with a normal position from a present abnormal position, a process of expenditure is without fail necessary.
We know well that the Republic of Korea is at present crying out for economic revival. In order for the Republic of Korea to rise to the level of a middle-ranking nation or an advanced nation, there must be enormous economic sacrifice behind it. To rise to such a level, conditions of indemnity proportionate to it must be invested. This is unavoidable from an actual position.
To become a Republic of Korea that saves the world, the Republic of Korea itself must stand in a position where it can indemnify the world; and for that, what is the problem first? The question is how every one of the thirty million people presents a condition of indemnity by which they can go to the world in place of the Republic of Korea. This becomes an enormous question.
When we consider the question whether God can restore the world through indemnity, God can restore the world through indemnity. God holds content by which He can indemnify for the whole world. Because God holds that, He can, from a subjective position, carry out a relative work of indemnity on the earth.
If, centering on our Unification Church today, you have a responsibility to liberate the nation and the people, you must stand in a subject position where you yourselves can present a condition of indemnity in place of the nation and the people before the nation and the people present a condition of indemnity. Can you be such? This becomes a still greater question.
Seen thus, anyone at all will have a mind that wishes to receive blessings before God’s Will, and wishes to receive love and wishes to be praised in later days by descendants as a forebear who welcomed one day of glory. Therefore, to become such a self, one cannot but coolly criticize and cannot but analyze and cannot but decide upon the question of whether one can present the actual environment in which one has lived until now just as it is as content of indemnity. This is our position of having to shoulder the destiny of the Unification Church. This cannot but be a serious problem.
Then how serious a position must you enter centering on reality?
To stand in a position of having to restore this sinful world of today through indemnity in God’s place, though the positions of God and us may differ from each other as subject and object, it means that in feeling one cannot but hold a standard by which one can accompany Him.
Therefore, one must become one with God’s earnest situation and Will in pushing forward the Will of the Providence of Restoration and stand on the very front line and build a foundation of victory. But the question becomes when there has been a time when you were in accord with God’s heart (심정).
If you have not discovered a self that you can bring forth and boast of before all under heaven, passing through each moment, you must know that though ideologically you may be related to God, from an actual position you have no relation.
Even though God, standing in the mainstream position together with the flow of history centering on the question of reality, has invested people according to the age to settle this, it means that if the people invested fail to form a relationship with God on the stage of reality and prepare a starting point of resolution, the Will is not achieved.
Looking at Jacob, he took away the blessing from Esau and lived twenty-one years in the wilderness of Haran. But while he stayed there, did God’s Will for the people of Israel develop? It did not develop. But we know well that because Jacob, after going round and round the stage of reality for twenty-one years, found the direction he must go and was equipped with an actual point of resolution by which he could subjugate Esau, only from there did the authority of a victorious people of Israel set out.
The I Who Must Hold Actual Value
Inferring from such things, we must know that for us too who face Heaven’s Will, a destiny is laid upon each of us that must unavoidably be settled centering on the stage of reality. That is connected to actual time and moments. So a ticking moment is the question. You will have experienced grace, but grace begins to be received in a ticking moment. It means it begins from one moment.
Speaking of an electric lamp, this is bound to the power station at Cheongpyeong. In order for this to be bound, one must pass through a process in which the fall of water turns a turbine and the generator turns so that the electricity generated comes here through a transmission station. Coming here and making contact is reality. In the moment one turns the switch, the light flashes on, and this moment is the final result as electricity. Here at last a relationship is formed.
However much electricity there is, if there were no such process, it would have no relation whatever to us human beings; but in that moment of pressing the switch, a bond with the human being is at last formed, centering on an actual relationship.
Likewise, if God were like a power station, without an intermediate process, God’s love would not come directly to us. Just as an intermediate process is necessary, the countless prophets and noble forebears of the spiritual world must cooperate for it to come to your minds and bodies. Then who connects this directly? There will be a time when someone connects it with the Will.
When you come to be connected from an actual position, you must be connected with the Will. And thus, one must be anxious for the Father’s Will. Grace does not come when one is anxious for oneself. It comes only when one is in accord with the Will and loves the nation and loves the world.
When one becomes one body with the standard and Will by which God has conducted the providence until now and collides with reality with strong force, a new bond is formed here.
Even though you have settled the whole account of the course of life you have walked, you must be unable to forget at least the period during which you have believed in the Unification Church until now. One must leave it eternally. That one time is not a period centered on oneself.
You have followed the Will for many years until now. But if you go about carelessly, it means you flow away with the passing years. Years already gone cannot come again either. Yet have you ever stood in a position of digging seriously into the Will and saying you must bring back the years that have flowed away?
When we think of how much of the twenty-four hours of a day we have lived a life centered on the Will, and how much we have lived making the Will actual, and how much we have pushed this forward feeling the necessity of the Will, how many such hours have I indeed had? A time when one turns over together with one’s life is necessary, but how many hours have you had of which you could say that among all the sensations or intuitions or notions felt through your five senses or your eyes and ears and mouth and nose, this moment is unforgettable?
Among you, a person who leads a life of grace will feel all visible things differently from before. Everything will feel new. Though it is the same, it will look new even when seen in the morning and new when seen in the evening. When Heaven’s grace surges there and makes contact, one comes to feel a three-dimensional mystery.
If there be a person who becomes aware of himself in such a position, he is a happy person. As in the words of Shakyamuni, "In heaven and on earth he alone is honored," one comes to stand in a position where one can praise one’s own nobility of holding infinite value. Becoming so is achieved instantly.
Among you who have followed the Will until now, is there anyone who would look back upon past living and say that time was good? Is there anyone who says the past was good and he wishes to return?
Among those who have long been in the Unification Church, there will be people who say the sixties were good. Then what of the past was good? Centering on one’s own individual self, it may have been good, but centering on the environment, it was not good. What is called “good” must not be good within a particular limited sphere of the individual but must be good from a universally valid position, in a position holding a relationship in which the whole has become one. Only then does it become of the people, for the nation, of the world. It means it will not do for only oneself to be good.
To maintain an eternal standard by which one can say one is good, one must without fail be able to adapt to that environment even though a bad environment comes. Even though you have studied and received a doctoral degree, that degree itself is not precious. How one holds more valuable content from an actual position becomes the question. From this viewpoint, when we think of the past we have walked until now, have we had at some one time a moment that could be so?
Unless a moment that can be so is connected, our Will is not achieved in reality. A day begins from a second. What is called the joy of a day comes from a position where one runs up against some bond of a moment and can become one with that bond. Joy does not come when one is alone. Joy comes in a position where colliding and centering on some relative standard, inside and outside and above and below, can be exchanged with each other, and each can help the other.
Seen thus, whether you hold actual content at some point in time becomes the question, and within that actual content the individual is contained, and the family is contained, and the nation and the world are contained. Only when one stands upon such a foundation does God intervene.
What God Requires
Why has the heavenly kingdom not been achieved upon this earth until today?
It is because there was no one person who could eternally lead the stage of reality together with God, and because there was no one family that could be so, and because there was no one people and nation that could be so. That is why the heavenly kingdom could not be achieved. Would it not be so?
In order for the Republic of Korea to stand eternally, there must be people of the Republic of Korea, and there must be a person who can lead the Republic of Korea. Also, there must be capacity within itself. Likewise, in order for God too to exist eternally, He must retain within Himself a capacity that can connect Him to the future.
If we think, centering on you yourselves placed in reality, why God cannot be together with every one of you upon this earth, it is because you yourselves have not been equipped with content by which you can connect a historic bond through a moment. If only the moment in which one can communicate with God disappears, everything becomes sorrow. Is that not so?
It is so with all the affairs of the world. The shorter the time between meeting and parting, the more mortifying it becomes. It becomes a stimulant that draws forth sorrow. What that standard of time desires is eternal happiness. We pursue love centering on eternity and pursue eternal happiness centering on eternal love.
God is the eternal subject. Then, have you, as objects, become individuals who can cross beyond reality together with the eternal Being upon this earth? If there be an individual who can be so and a family that can be so, that individual and that family will be able to build a people holding such notions through eternal history, and that people will be able to build such a nation.
What differs between Unification Church members and the people of the world is that they are made to be in accord through such notions and thought. The questions of unification of heart (심정), unification of the Word, unification of action, and unification of ideology are the same for a Unification Church person of a thousand years ago and a Unification Church person of a thousand years hence. It means the content held is the same. So one can live transcending temporality. If such an ism holds subject content and always leads reality, it comes to govern the world.
What will God, who desires such things, require of us?
He wishes that you yourselves form a relationship with God in reality that can be maintained eternally. You must, applying that relationship within your sphere of living, widen the environment in which God can intervene. The value bound with God is not something that is consumed so that one must resupply it but goes on gradually developing. To put it another way, it is the same as a sown seed sprouting and bearing fruit and multiplying.
You must, through one core stimulus of joy, absorb all the conditions within the sphere of your environment and develop. In such a position, even if one told God to depart, He would not depart.
If one breaks open time and the stage of reality passing through some developmental factor, it means God does not depart. That person without fail enters God’s bosom. Also, he must enter. Otherwise, God’s Will is not achieved.
That is why the road a sage goes is separate. It means the road a loyal subject goes, or the road filial sons and virtuous women go, is a separate road. It is not a road just anyone goes on. One cannot go by means and methods alone. One cannot go the road of a sage without attending to God with one mind and one body.
Furthermore, to become a filial son, one must cross over holding a mind that is one with Him at whatever moment and in whatever environment, at whatever moment holding actual content.
In order for a nation to be equipped with a form by which it can develop, the citizenry must stand in a position of inquiring, centering on the sovereignty of the nation. A citizenry holding such subjecthood develops. Otherwise, a citizenry holding subjecthood in its own way can be nothing but a citizenry that makes that nation regress.
Adam, who was set up first before God, ought to have become a sage (성인 聖人). Jesus too is not an adult (성인 成人) but a sage (성인 聖人). Seen centering on the nation, one must attend to God as sovereign; and seen closely, one must attend to Him as a parent.
Furthermore, in the relationship of subject and object, one must attend Him as the bridegroom from the position of the bride.
The Human Being Who Must Go the Way of the Sage
That is why the sage must begin everything centering on Heaven, the loyal subject centering on the sovereign, and the filial son centering on parents. Therefore, it means the names loyalty, filial piety, and fidelity too do not come out of themselves. To occupy such a position, one must pass through righteousness (의 義).
Righteousness is not according to one’s own will. When some subject comes to the sovereign having set up a plan for the future and says he will do thus, even if that suits the sovereign’s mind, it means the sovereign does not say, “Yes, do so.” Even though there is a new plan, the motive must in every respect be the sovereign, who is the subject. In communist nations, and especially looking at the North Korean puppet regime, what is the reason they purge all those close to them? It is because they seem likely to get ahead of them. Before they bring forth subject authority from a new angle, they cut them off.
Even looking at the principle of heavenly reason, one must without fail form a relationship and develop it centering on subject content. In developing, one must go through the subject. So it means that when that subject is a villain, that world perishes.
Until now, when a contradiction arose in such a position, a struggle unfolded to overcome this, and it has developed until now.
But if there be a good absolute center, if one becomes one with this One, one can stand before the subject of goodness. Goodness holds the ability to protect and holds one unified absolute purpose. Goodness does not shift this way and that.
Even in the world, that a conscience is upright means that it does not bend along the way but drives through one purpose. Goodness must not have two purposes. It must without fail be one.
A good person breaks through and crosses over even though death draws near before him. People who are dragged along by their environment cannot take part in the rank of good people. However lonely and difficult an environment may be, one must know it as a mission and break through. Rather than a person who knows it as destiny and breaks through, a person who knows it as a mission and breaks through becomes the pioneer of that age and a historic figure. Not because one’s own fate was born this way, but only one who knows the responsibility he must carry out as a mission and can digest it becomes the pioneer of that age and a historic figure.
Seen from this viewpoint, you must feel something about why God has until now been unable to be together with us. You must think about why God envies the actual me and about why, though apart from me, He cannot form a relationship with the family, nation, and world He would seek hereafter; a time in which He can form a relationship with God is not achieved within myself.
Even though in the process of reality one has formed a bond with Heaven centering on some moment, it must not end with that moment. There one must add time and pass through a day, and add days and pass through a month, and add months and pass through a year. And thus, one must pass through the nation and cross beyond the world. Because the road the sages went was such, you must go the way of the sage (성현지도 聖賢之道).
What is it that God has desired until now?
As said above, God desires a person who can present a condition of indemnity as an individual in place of the nation before the nation itself sets up and presents a condition of indemnity. Therefore, we must, holding subjecthood, actually present and attest to conditions by which we can eternally lead the people and nation and show that it can become the happiness of all people and can become the origin of all people and can become a factor of victory. In showing this, one must show it not vaguely in the future but in reality.
What must one do for that?
One must indemnify, indemnify. It means one must indemnify. If one would set up a condition of indemnity for the nation, one must set up a condition of indemnity in place of the nation.
If one would set up a condition of indemnity for the church, one must take responsibility for all the sufferings of the church. The position of being an offering is a position of having to take responsibility for suffering. When a person becomes an offering, the offering of an ox or a sheep is no comparison. A person must stake their life and shed blood as the price of the highest suffering. You must know that only by doing so does it become a factor of development that can remain in the process of history.
Those Who Would Receive and Those Who Would Give
The history of this world until now has been woven as a history of war. But by countless peoples warring with peoples, did it indeed only regress? No. On the one hand it seems to be ruined, but on the other hand, war also left conditions by which one could set out from a new angle.
In this respect, the Unification Church of the Republic of Korea today has presented conditions of struggle in a new field of the world of thought and the religious world. The human being is trying to find a present age that can be more precious, and if that present age has been attested to through us, it becomes a problem. That is why the Unification Church has been a problem until now.
That there are many people is not the problem. One person is the problem. Numbers are not the problem; one person who can move history is the problem. Those who now sway the policy of the world are within about thirty people. In this way, one person is the problem.
Seen centering on Christianity, who is the one who has moved history? It is Jesus. In Christianity, Jesus is God. Why do you believe in Jesus? To believe in Jesus and go to heaven? By no means. With that, one cannot go to heaven. Christians say, “I will give up all the difficult things, so you take responsibility for the difficult things.” Would God like that? If God liked it, heavenly reason would be wrong. Do you like it when someone does that? You do not like it, do you? It means Christians say, “Let me receive the blessing and you receive the calamity.” Where is there such a law? A person of character in the world does not do so.
When you think something or say you will do something, if you cooperate, you gain a benefit. But in dividing goods, if one item remains and each says he must take it, what happens?
If there is nothing that can determine the value of what remains, the character of the person who would take that item becomes the question. When they fight over each taking it, there is nothing for it but to ask a third party and have a judgment made. But when one person among them says, “I will yield,” the one who takes it loses and the one who does not take it wins.
Seen from this viewpoint, which person is more a person of character? The side that yields is the person of character. If both are people of character, they must fight over each not taking it. It is made so. Such reason must unfold before the people.
If oneself and God do a joint work, it will not do to say, “Let me take the blessing, and you toil.” Ought one not to say, “If it can lessen Thy toil, I will gladly do it even though it be toilsome”?
Established faith must all perish in the Last Days. It means they come to welcome a harvest season without fruit. It cannot but be so. There will be no one at all who will remain. Even those who remain will leave feeling bad. It means that if one seeks to gain too great a benefit in comparison with what one has done, one no longer wishes to come to that place. But if one recalls the original position again and says one wishes to meet a human being, that position becomes an important position.
Yet they, as though beggar spirits had attached themselves to them, always say, “Give us.” Give what? One ought to think it apologetic that He has left us until now without killing us. One must think so.
We must say to God, “I will give.” But God says He will not receive. Are we not the children of the enemy before God? That the children of the enemy say they will give makes Him feel bad. Seen from God’s position, if the human being, who is the child of the enemy, says he will become the great sage of all under heaven, it would feel bad.
From a position of having to avenge oneself, as one day passes and two days pass and decades pass, that is, as the period in which one is given pain passes one time, two times, three times over, one will burn all the more with a desire for revenge.
What is knotted is not unraveled with anything less than the pain that the enemy gave. Therefore, we who are in the position of the enemy must sacrifice several times over for Him. Then a game unfolds in which the enemy, though he would strike, even hands over his share of inheritance. Do you understand?
Are there not such things in the world too?
Such stories come up now and then in your living as well, do they not? You must make a bond by which the enemy, though he would kill you at once, can hand over everything to you. The history of Restoration has flowed in just this way.
We are God’s enemies who cannot be pardoned by God. We were all born cowardly as the children of the enemy. Is that not so? But one must say before God, “I wish to die once, so if Thou canst kill me, kill me as much as Thou wilt.” One must say, “Though I was born as a descendant of the enemy, I will live to resolve Thy han.
Therefore, all my eating and sleeping and living is done only to resolve Thy han.” It means one must act substantially so that it can be acknowledged that, for God’s sake, one can cast away one’s life two times, three times. This is the road by which one can subjugate the enemy and the road of Restoration.
Though this is the principle, believing people only ask God to give them blessings. Is it that they would snatch away blessings? If blessing is so good and so longed for, it means go break down with an axe the secret storehouse where God’s jar of blessing is and take it.
The Law of Indemnity
Seen in terms of faith, we are the children of the enemy before God. We are the children of the enemy who cannot be pardoned. That is why we must be struck. For the sake of history, we must be struck in place of the nation and in place of the world and in place of heaven and earth. It means the enemy Satan must not enter within such as us.
What is the road to receiving the most blessings?
Setting aside the nation and the world, what kind of road is the road by which one can become a historic person hereafter? It is entering a position where the enemy can strike. Then God can help. Is that not so? That is the work of avenging.
It is so with God too. He leaves on Heaven’s side the person the enemy hates, and lets the person the enemy likes remain on Satan’s side. Then what must a person do who would stand on Heaven’s side? Since Satan hates God, one must be struck in God’s place. That is why Satan has struck from of old.
When the person nearest to Him does not listen, God strikes with words. There is a whip that strikes with words, is there not? If it still does not get through even after striking with the whip that strikes with words, next He strikes the life. This is the law of indemnity. On the day when, being continually struck with the whip, one cries out and collapses, one cannot be resurrected. When God has planned to indemnify that household and killed one representative person of that family, a person who stands in a position of thinking He went too far comes to be cut off. This is God’s strategy.
Then where does God send people?
He sends them to the satanic world. He sends them to the enemy camp. If one is persecuted and struck there, it sets up a condition by which one can subjugate Satan’s side, and also a condition is established by which one can receive blessings from Heaven’s side. That is why He does so.
What kind of position is a position that can thus become beneficial?
That position is a position of being despised and driven. It is a mortifying position. Even so, one must go in saying, “God, please love me.” Because God loves, He sends one to the enemy camp. It is not something done in words alone. Parents love their son to the degree of offering up their lives for him.
Jesus, to resolve the problems upon the earth, spoke the words “Love your enemy” and even on the cross prayed to God, “Forgive their sin.”
So could Satan appear again before the resurrected Jesus bearing a gun and sword? It means he cannot do so. This is the reason for things. Because Satan is caught in such a reason, from there, the foundation of a new world is formed.
The Teacher of the Unification Church went of his own accord to a position of hardship, to a road of persecution. God wishes, by such a principle, to give the whole of it to the human being while facing the world. You must know this. But who currently would digest this?
In striking the enemy, the Teacher and you are in a common position. The Teacher himself too, to save the countless enemies of the nation if a nation, or the countless people of Christianity if Christianity, bows his head and is struck by them. I do not know how good a period, in actual terms, is the period of coming forth and forming such a bond. It means that without doing so there is no road by which one can accompany God. While going this road of being struck, one indemnifies one person among them and forgives even those who followed him. How splendid is an attitude of mind that can be so? This is God’s strategy.
If one were to become a son or daughter of God, what kind of person must one become? One must become a person who can stand on Heaven’s side and receive glory in the Cosmos. For that one must, like the Teacher, unfold a strategy that can benefit the enemy. Only when Abel, until now, subjugates Cain do both live. Is that not so? Such a road is the road we must go.
Become a Person God Needs
When Unification Church members bear their cross and pray, how must they pray? Where is the highest position of confronting the enemy and our actual starting point? To know such things, one must experience. You understand what I mean, do you not?
Where is the most basic position, the most actual position?
It is precisely the position of governing from God’s position. Then at this time, what must you do? One must gladly accept Heaven’s course. One must gladly receive and digest Heaven’s formulaic law.
If you completely digest that within yourselves, you will stand in a position near before the Absolute Being. According to how much one digests it, one comes to hold a substantial factor, an absolute factor. That is, it means one stands in a position nearer before God than anyone. Do you understand what I mean?
You must know that the Teacher has a desire to send you out to the world. So you must become plenipotentiaries of Heaven and be able to speak clearly about anything. A secret envoy whispers in hiding, but a plenipotentiary must have the nerve to speak plainly even though driven to the very top. A plenipotentiary must not hold a prejudice that says, “I dislike you.” What kind of plenipotentiary is a person who works so hopelessly? For such a plenipotentiary, cutting off his neck would be of no avail. The public law of all under heaven is made so.
You must become plenipotentiaries who completely digest Heaven’s law. As plenipotentiaries, one must accept a difficult environment. Even though you yourselves be sold away, if it be a work by which Heaven’s wish can be accomplished, one must step forth. Such a person is a true plenipotentiary.
Hereafter, the Unification Church must carry out Restoration through Indemnity worldwide. Must it do so, or must it not? The Unification Church must carry out Restoration through Indemnity worldwide, representing the world. Before the nation does it, the Unification Church must do it. For the nation’s sake, it means that before saving this nation, a condition of indemnity is necessary that is more than enough to indemnify this nation’s history.
In order for the Unification Church to indemnify worldwide, even though anyone at all treats the Unification Church badly, you must become plenipotentiaries who can present a worldwide condition of indemnity.
Today we must become people God needs. Also, we must become brave ones of whom He can embrace us and say, “This place is perfect. My son, so it is after all.” In this age, such an individual is absolutely necessary. A family centered on such an individual is necessary, and a clan centered on such a family is necessary. Our Unification Church must be placed in precisely such an environment.
If one is a son or daughter of God, one must achieve such a family and step forth before a traditional clan and nation. And thus, one must invest the whole of one’s tears and one’s life and property and decide life or death at the terminal station. Only then does one come to settle the victory or defeat of the clan. Is that not so?
Centering on the sixties, the Teacher has, holding a consciousness of responsibility in place of the people, been making the people one body. So now the time has come when one can harmonize the feelings of people with people and nation with nation and can settle the division of good and evil.
Is worldwide restoration possible, centering on Korea, or impossible?
The problem is not difficult. One needs only to make Satan bow his head before these people and make him think it a matter of thanks. Only when Satan bows his head can one break through.
The Faith of Abel, Who Forgives and Blesses
Here the right of governance unfolds. When a substance holding a single-minded resolve like Jesus becomes the master of the nation and the world and goes such a road for the sake of the whole, world restoration is achieved of itself. You understand what I mean, do you not? The right of governance is settled here. Where is such a substance? It means it is in the Republic of Korea.
You must, in going forward in the seventies on a supra-actual standard, cross over the crisis of August 1978. At present, the only place in the world that can drive back the communist nations is the Unification Church. Christianity has not made such preparation. One must inspire them so that they can face you and say, “I am like this, but you are all right.” You are now fighting with them one by one, but in the end time will resolve all the problem points. Because you entered the Unification Church knowing such content, you wish the Unification Church to do well in reality.
You must become responsible individuals of the Unification Church in reality and sell the Teacher for your living. For that, there must be a justification. Is the Teacher doing this work now because he has received urging from someone in the world telling him to do it? If the Teacher wishes to do it, he does it, and if he wishes not to, he does not.
The Teacher, even though the people of the world revile him and drag away all those close to him and do all sorts of things, puts it into practice while saying, “I will do it. The road I must go on is time-sensitive. There remain loyalty and filial piety I must fulfill, and there remains a road I must go. There are actual circumstances that must be settled by the bond of the Way of Heaven.”
Since it is a point in history that must be done, what can be done? Because I do so, God comes to trust me. Do you understand?
That the number of those who betray the Teacher is many does not mean the Teacher perishes. It is the same with the course Heaven Goes. So it means do not be disheartened either. The Teacher is leading the nation and pursuing an ideal world, and if this nation and these people betray, these people become the most pitiful. But because to save the world one must pass through a process in which the nation opposes, I have set up before my own individual self the conviction that says, “The citizenry and clan and family and individual of the Republic of Korea represent the nations of the world and represent the peoples of the world, and represent the families of the world and represent all the people of the world.” You must know that this becomes the content of worldwide indemnity.
Won't enemies who cannot be freed from sin appear before me as I go the heavenly road? That is why one must stand in a position where one can face a national messiah before such a national enemy comes forth.
That is not done for the enemies’ sake in later days. It is not that one does so because there is much possibility of striking when one faces the enemy centering on the people. Even though the established church members oppose the Unification Church, we must forgive them. Even though countless families oppose our Unification Church families, if we keep our families, there is nothing for it but to forgive those families. So even though they oppose, there is all the more possibility of forgiving.
That is why God can bless our families. We, as Abel-type beings, must bless those who are Cain-type. Just as Jacob offered all his things as gifts to Esau, so you too must give them everything. And yet they do not know that life is more precious than material things. When we thus go forward centering on one people, can we call them enemies? Our doing so is entering the sphere of God’s love. Do you understand what I mean? If one loses God’s love, everything is of no use.
That the Republic of Korea opposes me before Japan is restored is so that God may make me one who loves God and connect the clan or people of Korea and make me love the nation. Until now, countless families have opposed, and clans and peoples and nations and the world are opposing. But since the time has come when we can propagate our Will before the world from the Republic of Korea, which opposed me, we can know that an age of unification draws near.
The other day too I heard people in a certain agency speaking eloquently about the fortune of the Unification Church. In fact, that the church wishes and goes forward is good content; that you can go forward while striking down the enemies who are on all sides is all because God is together with you. So you must go forth before the whole with a mind that says you will die for God.
Fulfill Your Mission in Reality Until the Will Is Achieved
In order to go down this road, one must bear many burdens.
If God were to give awards for this, and if there were a person who offered his life for the Will, he would certainly receive an award. But a person who has not offered his life here perishes. The Teacher prayed in such a position for the people who opposed. But those who opposed lost their nation, and we came to stand in a position where we can boast before the world. At the crossroads of life and death, a time when it can be so comes.
What Adam could not obtain within Cain and Abel themselves, he will obtain through the nation and the people. Because Adam sowed that seed from the individual through the family, the clan, and the nation, it means the time to harvest it comes. It means the time to harvest comes. Seen from this viewpoint, it means the seventies are a time when the Unification Church can gain final victory.
Since God knows all the facts that Unification Church members, that is, you, have prepared and devoted sincerity to and woven, in later generations an age will come when people cooperate with us so that we can rest.
Now an age has arrived when even Satan can push us forward. The purpose we aim at is new. Satan’s purpose is to lead human history so that the human being cannot cross the pass of indemnity, and God’s purpose is to let humankind cross the sphere of indemnity. Now our purpose is new. This has become a purpose that can be newly welcomed for the human being. From here a new theory of the heavenly kingdom develops.
Then, since one must prepare such things on the actual stage of living, you must pay the price for that. Among the bands who opposed you, there are now people who have entered our church thinking in that way. Precisely, the first generation of the people of Israel who came out from the palace perished, but the second generation achieved God’s Will. The problem depends upon the descendants. That is why, until the Will is achieved, we must go forward holding an actual mission. Do you understand?
Do you know what happens to anyone who falls away in the historical process until now?
Considered a tree, even though all the leaves fall when winter comes, there is work to be done for the time when spring is met again. When I think carefully about the people of Nampo who followed the Teacher when I was in Pyongyang and then fell away at one pass on the road, it seems they were dismayed by the words Restoration through Indemnity. It means that whatever anyone says, they go without looking back. Compared with them, among you who hold a parent’s heart (심정), there is not one who is inferior rather than superior to those people. So when I think from the position of one who is better, I cannot but be worried.
Because God is eternal, you must be equipped with a standard by which you can leave an eternal bond centering on the actual parents whom the eternal God has established. Since an eternal world came forth centering on an individual, when that individual appears, one comes to gather everything together with God.
If there be a person within a family who can be together with God eternally, God will help that family. Then one can go seeking centering on the clan, people, and nation.
If such content is here, whether you came knowing this or not knowing it, it means the Kingdom of Heaven on earth is possible upon the foundation of this actual world. You must know this.
